Spence, Joseph; Tindal, Nicholas [Editor]; Dodsley, James [Oth.]: A Guide To Classical Learning: Or, Polymetis Abridged: Containing, I. By Way of Introduction, the Characters of the Latin Poets and their Work ... II. An Inquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Antient Artists ... Being a Work absolutely necessary, not only for the Right Understanding of the Classics, but also for forming in Young Minds a True Taste for the Beauties of Poetry, Sculpture, and Painting (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1786)

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rule (or measure) in her hand, and a globe at her
feet, to <how not only that the emperor, by his
prudence, kept the world in order, but that the
affairs of human life are by her regulated as they
ought to be. Pl. 2. n. 7.
Justice (or rather Equity) is represented on
a medal of Galba with a pair of scales in her
hands, held exa&ly even. Her ssight to heaven,
when the world grew vile and corrupt, is describ-
ed by Virgil, but more fully by Aratus in one of
his finest digressions. There is nothing descrip-
tive of her person, except a passage in Petronius,
who, upon the breaking out of the civil wars,
describes her as discomposed, with her hair all
loose and disordereds. Pl. 2. n. 8.
Fortitude (on a common medal of Adrian)
is represented with an eredt air, resting on a spear
with one hand, and holding her sword in the
other. She has a globe under her feet, to (how
that by her the Romans were to conquer the
world. From their military turn, they gave
Fortitude the name of Virtus, or the Virtue, by
way of excellence, by which they understood
not only military courage, but a firmness of mind,
and love of action; a steady readiness to do good,
and a patient endurance of all evils. Pl. 2. n. 9.
Virtus
s Virg. Geo. ii. v. 474. Arat. <paiv. v. 97. -Petr. v. 253..
g Our author observes, the temper of a people is sometlmes
discoverable srom their usage*of words. Thus the French call
civility